Patient history
A 76-year-old COVID-19 male with history of coronary stenting, type 2
diabetes, hypertension and heart arrhythmia was admitted in the ICU for
respiratory distress requiring mechanical ventilation. As recommended in
our ICU department, patient was tracheotomized 7 days after its ICU
hospitalization. Surgical tracheotomy was performed without difficulty.
Forty-eight hours post-tracheotomy (d9), patient benefited from neck
CT-scan for peri-tracheal bleeding. The tomodensitometry confirmed
lateral neck hematoma in front of the left superior thyroid artery
(Figure 2a, b). According to the bleeding risk and the clinical
condition of the patient, physicians proposed a conservative management
of the hemorrhage.